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Don Quixote Vol. 2: The Further Adventures of the Knight of La Mancha
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerRomanceClassic Fiction
ISBN13: 9781617206108
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Jan 24 2012
Pages: 456
Weight: 1.46
Height: 1.02 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Don Quixote and Sancho Panza ride again in the brilliant second half of Cervantes's comic masterpiece, where fame, illusion, friendship, and cruel entertainment collide. In Volume 2, the knight of La Mancha and his loyal squire return to the road already famous for the adventures of the first volume. Their reputation precedes them, and the world they enter is now shaped by readers, tricksters, nobles, impostors, and admirers who know their story and use that knowledge to test, mock, and manipulate them.
More intricate, self-aware, and emotionally searching than the first volume, Don Quixote Vol. 2 deepens the relationship between master and servant while turning the novel itself into part of the joke. Cervantes transforms a parody of chivalric romance into a profound comic meditation on storytelling, identity, delusion, loyalty, and the human need to make life larger than it is. The result is one of the foundational works of world literature and one of the great achievements of literary comedy.
This second volume is especially valuable for readers who want the full arc of Don Quixote's journey: not merely the famous windmills and comic mishaps, but the later, richer, stranger book in which Cervantes answers imitators, plays with the boundaries between fiction and reality, and brings his unforgettable knight and squire toward one of literature's most moving conclusions.
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